EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Linda and Russell Murphy left an open house at East Palestine High School on Thursday evening with more questions than answers.
The school's gymnasium has turned into a hub for informational forums for residents impacted by the Feb. 3 train derailment. But the sparsely attended event Thursday, intended to inform residents about preliminary soil sampling results, seems to represent a growing exhaustion felt among residents as they try to pick up the pieces of their lives.
"If you've been here over the past couple weeks, you'll see that the tables are dropping off," Linda Murphy said. "The attendance is terrible because it can feel pointless. You can't see what the dioxins will do. You can't see the cancer coming."
